ἀντί

See also: αντί, αντί-, αντι-, and ἀντι-

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ᾰ̓ντ’ (ant’), ᾰ̓νθ’ (anth’) — apocopic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“front, opposite”). Cognates include English and, Latin ante, Sanskrit अन्ति (ánti), and Old Armenian ընդ (ənd).^[1]

The genitive is from the PIE ablative of separation or comparison.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.tí/ → /anˈti/ → /anˈdi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.tí/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈti/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdi/

Preposition

ἀντί • (antí) (governs the genitive)

1. over against, opposite
2. at the same time as
3. in exchange for, in place of
4. at the price of, in return for
5. for the sake of, for
6. instead of
7. compared with
8. equivalent to, no better or worse than
   • ἀντίθεος, godlike
   • γυναικὸς ἄρ’ ἀντὶ τέτυξο, for you have become no better than a woman (Iliad 8.163)

Descendants

• English: anti-, ant-
• Greek: αντί (antí, “instead of”, preposition)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀντί”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109

Further reading

• “ἀντί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀντί”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀντί”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀντί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀντί in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀντί in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀντί”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G473 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • consideration idem, page 163.
  • cost idem, page 176.
  • exchange idem, page 288.
  • for idem, page 334.
  • instead of idem, page 446.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • price idem, page 640.
  • recognition idem, page 680.
  • requital idem, page 700.
  • return idem, page 708.
  • reward idem, page 711.
  • room idem, page 721.
  • stead idem, page 814.